Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
6:00am EST
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
3h|war|TV-MA
9:00am EST
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
2h|comedy|TV-PG
11:00am EST
Downhill Racer (1969)
1h 49m|drama|TV-PG
12:45pm EST
How to Vote (1936)
15m|short|TV-G
1:00pm EST
The Candidate (1972)
2h|drama|TV-14
3:00pm EST
All The President's Men (1976)
2h 30m|drama|TV-MA
5:30pm EST
The Sting (1973)
2h 16m|comedy|TV-PG
7:45pm EST
The Magic Alphabet (1942)
15m|short|TV-G
8:00pm EST
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
2h|western|TV-14
10:00pm EST
The Way We Were (1973)
2h 15m|romance|TV-14
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Quite the list. Can anyone name a movie from 2020-2025(besides Marvel crap)? Go ahead,I dare you. How about Oscar winners?
--GRA
Inquiring Minds Want to Know About Robert Redford and His Widow:
1. What was his cause of death? (No matter how old you are, you always die of something.)
2. Why is there so little personal--as distinct from professional--information about his second wife, Sibylla Szaggars?
They met at his Utah ski resort in 1996 when she was about 39 years old. Had she been married before? If not, with whom were her previous relationships? Did she have any children from them? (Probably not, but who knows, given the silence about her background.)
Who were her parents? What did they do, and what was their background? Were they Protestant or Catholic? Any Nazi officials in her family tree? Any Jews?
For an uninformative article about her, see Kaitlin Stevens and Samantha Stutsman’s People Magazine puff piece at https://people.com/all-about-sibylle-szaggars-robert-redford-wife-11810787
Except for CASSIDY... yawn. Where's WAR HUNT (1962), his debut and a better movie than that other stuff (and with John Saxon, who was better than RR and should have had a bigger career). I would have shown that, ORDINARY PEOPLE, and some of his early TV episodes instead if I were going to tribute the bum. Which I'm not.
-RM
I aired my suspicions about Redford (and other actors whose private lives were kept a closely-guarded secret) here recently. Only a guess, mind you; I don't want to slur anyone unduly without evidence.
Interesting item found in an old TV GUIDE:
BREAKING POINT "Bird and Snake." Roger Morton finds (the doctor's) group therapy sessions an ideal exercise ground for his sadistic tendencies. Morton: Robert Redford.
I did mention that many "pretty boy" actors were cast in those sort of roles in TV dramas, perhaps an indicator of something unpleasant under the facade. RR certainly played his share of those. Unfortunately, that episode (sounds like great fun!) isn't one of the ones available online.
-RM
Well,I thought Redford was a major acting personality,someone who would put fannies in seats(in the right movies--which he had plenty). Paul Newman was in the same category. Streisand was similar,on the female side of the business--during this era of the late 60s to around 1996.
--GRA
How popular was he? Sometimes an actor gets lucky with the right part in the right movie, and they're "hot" for a few years. I'm looking at his filmography- BUTCH CASSIDY was a genuinely great movie and he was perfect opposite Newman, and that pushed him to the top, but were WILLIE BOY, DOWNHILL RACER, THE CANDIDATE, LITTLE FAUSS AND BIG HALSY (what an awful title!) big hits? JEREMIAH JOHNSON (which I remember as pretty good, but probably needed a stronger lead actor) was likely a modest success; GATSBY was panned (I thought it OK, perfectly cast with two pretty-but-vacuous actors in the leads) but probably did well; THE HOT ROCK was popular and likely led to THE STING, in my estimation was of the most over-rated movies ever, but again the right movie at the right time, and cemented RR's "stardom." He lucked out again with THE WAY WE WERE, which every woman (especially the unattractive ones, who, along with gays, make up most of Barbra's fan base) probably dragged their boyfriends to see; and ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, a well-made but despicable propaganda piece fashionably cashing in on Watergate and making heroes out of two of the most disreputable "journalists" in history. ELECTRIC HORSEMAN was a good one, BRUBAKER a pretentious bore; OUT OF AFRICA the ultimate snoozer but again RR lucked out and the damn thing was showered with undeserved awards. I liked his directing debut, ORDINARY PEOPLE, very much; it was enjoyably downbeat and probably benefited from him not being in it. After that... who cares? He hung in there, and I never said he wasn't a good actor; I just hate him for his in-your-face Liberal "activism." Oh, and he created the Sundance Festival, which started admirably as a showcase for independent filmmakers and became an outlet for every radical agenda imaginable.
His filmography is here; the TV episodes omit BREAKING POINT, so there may be other titles absent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Redford_filmography
My tag omitted- RM (which you could have guessed).
What about "The Natural"? I have no real rememberance of the plot except for the magic bat and a great supporting cast. I think that was a big hit too.
You know,back then,I was totally clueless about politics and Hollywood. Too busy working nights and trying to function in the daytime. The press didn't push it in our faces that much. Carson wasn't a Kimmel or Colbert,so his guests didn't rail on about republicans OR democrats.
A much better time,all the way around.
--GRA
abc noise called recently deceased Diane Ladd "an icon"--as if she WAS an icon.
Redford and Keaton were icons,Diane Ladd was a supporting actress who had the same last name as Cheryl Ladd(not related).
It's like calling Vincent Gardenia an icon. A good supporting actor--not an icon.
Not everyone is an icon.
--GRA
Yep, THE NATURAL was a hit, but I didn't want to belabor the issue (I didn't care for it, but then I never like Barry Levinson movies, except for YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES, which was most likely really directed by its producer, Spielberg). Looking at it another way, you could say Redford preferred quirky (or politically-minded) movies to ones that would be guaranteed hits, which I guess is to his credit. The guys that consistently "put people in the seats" in the 70s were named Eastwood, Bronson, Reynolds, and Wayne (while he lasted)- a totally different type of actor.
-RM
I don't remember her much from the movies, but she was in an episode of the 1950s series DECOY and she was stunning! She actually upstaged star Beverly Garland with her youthful good looks and spectacular figure! (You can probably find the show online- it's the original POLICE WOMAN).
-RM
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